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David Mark- Original Skin (DS Aector McAvoy 2) - http://ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2013...
oh, I just got a copy of this (closes eyes tightly)
- barbara fister
Just finished my schtick about the library at adjunct faculty orientation. I turned on the lights, started asking them questions, and made bad jokes. They might have been nodding off before, but they aren't now!
Marie, Jaclyn aka spamgirl, Galadriel C. and 11 other people liked this
Well done!
- RepoRat
I'm much more awake now also, I have to say
- maʀtha
these poor people are stuck here for 3 hours and everyone is just talk talk talking at them
- maʀtha
I'm ready to redesign orientation as a musical
- maʀtha
that would be awesome.
- Marianne
Excellent. I love it when a plan comes together. Mega-kudos for engaging your audience!
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Not so much with the planning, more about looking people in the eye and having a conversation, and a little fun :)
- maʀtha
I can just see it - 3 hours in the dark with power point slides? You are the hero. (Also, terrible faculty development design; faculty prefer to do the talking whenever possible.)
- barbara fister
...I dunno, turnabout seems like it ought to be fair play in this situation. (Just kidding: bad pedagogy is bad pedagogy, no matter whose butts are in the seats.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
Martha is the best.
- laura x
@Catherine and Barbara: exactly! WTF?
- maʀtha
We used to have a good new fac orientation that had the attendees rotating between three locations in the library and doing more discussion and meeting people. Now they compressed it into a half day and it's just a series of 10-15 minute presentations and I think it sucks. Good for you for livening it up!
- kaijsa
I wish I could get the folks who schedule adjunct orientation to remember to invite me more than 15 minutes before it starts. *sigh*
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Your people need an intervention. Sheesh.
- barbara fister
Steele Lawman and lris liked this
O.O Oh-kay.
- Running Slow
eep.
- RepoRat
oh. my. lord.
- barbara fister
392.1 Customs of birth, puberty, majority. 392.5 Wedding and marriage customs.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
oh dear.
- Christina Pikas
*nods head* *sighs* *screams DEWWWWWWWWEY while shaking fist towards the earth*
- Chris Z.
To hear some women talk about their marriages...
- Steele Lawman
Happy birthday to the LIS Host/LIS News empire builder, Blake Carver!
Kelli H., John: Thread Killer, Jason - The Opaque and 17 other people liked this
I for one congratulate our WordPress overlord!
- RepoRat
Happy Birthday, Blake!!
- WebGoddess
happy birthday blake!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Happy birthday, good sir!
- Derrick
Happy birthday!
- Pete #TeamMonique
May your Wordpress be always upgraded, Blake.
- barbara fister
Happy B'day, and you'll be glad to know I changed my admin name to Admin and the password to Password, just as you instructed. "1234" was getting old.
- Walt Crawford
Happy Birthday Blake!
- Hedgehog
Happy birthday!
- Galadriel C.
Happy birthday! Let's all celebrate by updating our Wordpress plugins!
- Andy
Happy birthday!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Woo! I'm going to change my passwords in your honor today.
- lris
I was about to pay you, but I'm afraid it might entail asking for my password. So I'm going to wait and do that another day. Instead, I shall just wish you the happiest of birthdays!
- laura x
Happy birthday, Blake!
- Katie
Happiest birthday!
- maʀtha
Happy birthday, Blake! (Yes, I updated my Wordpress. Just for you.)
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Blake will be glad to know that thanks to many, many e-mails we (i) have the latest install and (ii) no longer have an 'admin' username
- Pete #TeamMonique
Happy birthday, Blake!
- Meg V. Meg
Time for Blake's annual update. Happy birthday!
- Steele Lawman
I keep blanking on the name for ... you know in a corporate research environment when librarians would put together a weekly or monthly document with summaries of the latest articles in a field ... what the heck did they call that?
suelibrarian and Betsy #TeamMonique liked this
synthesis?
- kendrak
Annotated bibliographies?
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
I remember a phrase from the late Jurassic period - selective dissemination of information.
- barbara fister
I get emails like that labeled as digests. Dunno.
- kaijsa
SDI sounds right, although current awareness could be another term.
- Walt Crawford
Current awareness?
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
Yeah, SDI and current awareness and alerts are kind of ringing a bell. Just musing on the new hot trend of "curation" and thinking about the old school ways we used to do that.
- Laura Norvig
Journal club?
- Jen
I guess that's not library-related though
- Jen
Lolling at "used to". Some of my colleagues still do it that way and lib management encourages it. Although these days it only should include "grey" reports and the like not covered by other alert services. My first big project was to set up institution wide internal blog for the purpose. Hardly anyone switched from weekly emails to posting so it's dead. Just not put out of its misery. Moved on.
- suelibrarian
For me, Twitter is a constant font of current awareness / SDI / curation.
- barbara fister
Environmental Scanning is what I heard in library school.....
- ~Courtney F
Environmental scan, state of the practice, research synthesis, lit review... so many names for very similar things. Really depends on who's asking for it. (I'm working with a group trying to define what a literature review is.)
- kendrak
Advocate for OA in New York State! | Open Access @ CUNY - http://openaccess.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013...
marlene, Yo Joe. No, go slow. and Hedgehog liked this
O hai Illinois; you are not alone. How are these getting started? Anybody have any insight?
- RepoRat
from Bookmarklet
Well, isn't that interesting
- Hedgehog
I'd bet quite a bit CUNY is at the bottom of this somewhere. Other than that, I know nossing, I see nossing.
- RepoRat
There's a California bill too: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces... Hadn't any idea.
- RepoRat
Wow!
- barbara fister
Huh. Wonder if the CA legislature will also provide adequate funding to the California State Library...
- Walt Crawford
Galadriel C. and Marie liked this
Vendor doesn't want to vend.
- barbara fister
Response: Have you tried not sucking? (the you is the vendor. just had a panic that you'd think I meant you, Jen.)
- kaijsa
Thomson One?
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Too funny, kaijsa! Joe, no - this is a little niche business resource. I can't imagine a larger vendor would ever consider such a response.
- Jen
the good news for me at work today is that my ergonomic keyboard and mouse are here! Yay! the bad news is apparently i forgot that it is the day of the library recognition lunch, and I forgot to head to the other campus instead of to my office (my work hours are 12-8 today, lunch started at noon, hence the confusion). Boo!
yayboo.
- barbara fister
Hey folks, it's Derrick's birthday! I, for one, feel very lucky to know him. Best wishes for your coming year, Derrick.
Kol Tregaskes, the king of the interweb, Mark Kille and 72 other people liked this
Happy!
- Jenica
Most wonderful of birthdays to you, Derrick!
- Lily
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Blake
Happy B-day.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Happy birthday, D!
- Steele Lawman
Happiest of days, D!
- laura x
A happiest of birthdays to my brother from another mother.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Happy day to you, Derrick!
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Happy Birthday!!
- Hedgehog
Many happy returns of the day, my friend!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Thanks everyone!
- Derrick
hippo birdie two ewes
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Happy birthday, Derrick!
- John (bird whisperer)
Happy Birthday!
- Kevin Johnson
Happy Birthday!!
- Kathy
Happy happy
- WarLord
Happy bday superman!
- SteVe C
Happy birthday. :0)
- Yvonne
Happy birthday! =)
- ronin
Merriest birthday, D!
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Happy birthday, sir!
- Meg V. Meg
Happy birthday!
- Eric - seven eleven
Happiest of birthdays to you Derrick!
- Galadriel C.
Happy birthday!
- Stephen le Francoeur
Happy birthday, dearest Derrick!
- Laura H.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Jefferson, Happy Birthday to you.
- Laura Norvig
Enjoy your day, Shug <3
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Happy birthday!
- Amandadon't
Happy happy birthday to an awesome librarian!
- John: Thread Killer
Happy Birthday Derrick!!
- adf
Hippo birdie!
- Rebecca Hedreen
Happy Birthday Derrick! Awesomeness should come to you today!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Happy Birthday, Derrick.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Many happy returns of the day, Derrick!
- barbara fister
You're the best, D, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I think it's now tomorrow here, but happy birthday anyway!
- Deborah Fitchett
Hey Derrick. Feliz cumpleaños!
- Franc, a rememberer
Thanks again, everyone!
- Derrick
<3 Happy birthday, D!!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Happy birthday, my friend!
- Jim #TeamMonique
from iPhone
How wonderful life is that Iris and Derrick both are in the world. And alla y'all.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Still thinking of you, D!
- Anne Bouey
Many happy returns!
- Megan loves summer
Happy belated birthday Derrick!
- the king of the interweb
Just forwarded to me by our director: Announcing a New (and Free) Database of Open Access Scholarship - http://ala.informz.net/Informz...
Laura Norvig, Pete #TeamMonique, RudĩϐЯaЯïan and 2 other people liked this
"Bepress Digital Commons invites you to explore a new database of open access scholarship (600,000+ articles) [...] This new resource for researchers includes scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work."
- Catherine Pellegrino
from Bookmarklet
BePress annoys me kind of a lot, but there's no denying they know their marketing.
- RepoRat
Is this Old News? I'm trying to figure out where exactly all this stuff is coming from. BePress is/makes repository software, right? So is it a compilation of all the OA stuff in BePress-powered repositories?
- Catherine Pellegrino
prolly, yeah. which, why haven't they had this all along?
- RepoRat
Okay, it would have been helpful if they'd, you know, said that in their vague ooh-shiny marketing copy.
- Catherine Pellegrino
interesting/odd/I'm confused
- lris
My director's going to see if she can touch base with them at Midwinter, to get a clearer answer to "where is all this coming from, anyway?" and "can it be set up as a target in SFX?"
- Catherine Pellegrino
Hmm, might need to add those to my list of questions to ask too... I got that email as well
- Hedgehog
They do a variety of things including IR, journal platform, and space for special collections/archive-type stuff. But "open access scholarship" could mean many different things. (They do have prodigious marketing. They also aren't cheap. But lots cheaper than hiring staff to build your own.)
- barbara fister
I'm just thinking, if we can somehow get our link resolver to know about this, then that will save our users one annoying Google Scholar work-around to get at this content, which: WIN.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I am doubtful the number of people who will go to this site to search. Realistically speaking, this should (is?) already found in Google Scholar and should be indexed in Summon etc. Trying a sample finds yes! it is ...
- aarontay
Oh yeah, there's no way I'm sending anyone here to actually search for articles, any more than I would send someone to DOAJ to search. (Though my colleagues include it on our list of databases, which...never mind.) I'm thinking more about the user who discovers an article by searching in one of our licensed databases, and the article happens to be included here...how does the user connect with that article? Hopefully via our link resolver.
- Catherine Pellegrino
I can actually see there are two entries/packages for Digital Commons in the serialssolutions knowledgebase. All should be open access?I am also requesting for it to be turned on too to try.
- aarontay
My colleague asked this question of this endeavour, that I thought was interesting. There are publisher license arrangements that allow for deposit in an institutional repository... but not a subject one. Does this reframing of existing content violate those agreements?
- copystar
Very interesting thought. But the publishers will have to go after BePress, because the authors did deposit the papers into institutional repositories. It's BePress that's repurposing the work. But then, the BePress IR software doesn't provide authors with an option to indicate restrictions on redistribution when they are depositing content, which is a defect in their system.
- DJF
The other optic that more annoys me than disturbs me, is that it looks like libraries put all the labour associated with building their small local institutional repository and then BePress re-purposes all the articles into something larger, flashier and all about BePress. I know that OA means being able to re-purpose work and I'm cool with that. Still, it just seems that libraries are *paying* in $$$ and labour for the privilege of populating BePress's new OA IR, and that seems like we are chumps, somehow.
- copystar
It'd be really hard to argue with a straight face that BePress has a DR. The stuff in there is gonna be all over the disciplines.
- RepoRat
Not sure about the legal thing, but I am not sure how much BePress gains from this really. It's an aggregator that they probably won't/can't charge for, and pretty much everyone won't use anyway.
- aarontay
It's pretty common for metadata from IRs to be aggregated into eg nationwide search place thingies (it's afternoon, my brain's fried; but like nzresearch.org.nz and oaister and stuff) which just link back to the original IR for the full-text. If that's all BePress is doing, not copying the full text, then I wouldn't think the publishers could complain. (If they were copying the full text then o.O because copyright, but it doesn't look like they are.)
- Deborah Fitchett
well, "copying fulltext" is moot when they have all the fulltext in a big bag on their server and this is just reorganizing it.
- DJF
they seem to be matching full-text though... that counts as copying (well at least using)? Actually if what they are doing is illegal, than Google scholar would be the same?
- aarontay
With second thoughts, I realize that I'm just sore that BePress costs us so much $$$. If this was an open source IR, I'd have no problem with this reframing.
- copystar
Apparently they *will* index material in other IR platforms as well (there was a thread on some repository list) but you have to meet a list of requirements that would not be easy for most other platforms.
- Sarah
what requirements are those?
- RepoRat
I'd have to figure out which listserv, but one was that the metadata records be clearly marked whether or not they were open or restricted, which, of course, DSpace doesn't do. Don't know about EPrints. We have way too many restricted items in IDEALS these days (digitized theses and dissertations) to try to figure that out.
- Sarah
*cusses DSpace* *cusses OAI-PMH* *cusses generally* It should be find-out-able even in DSpace with a SQL query to the DB ("which items in the DB contain content bitstreams that don't have Anonymous as an access group?"), but exposing that is the problem. Does BePress suggest how? Because, I mean, creating a custom metadata field and populating it with SQL would be doable.
- RepoRat
Let me see if I can dig the email out - though I delete a lot of them. But yes, it's annoying. And OAI-PMH is, I would guess, a big part of the issue. There was a *FANTASTIC* talk by Herbert Van de Sompel at IDCC this year basically reflecting back on the progression from PMH to ResourceSync. Very interesting.
- Sarah
Okay - here are the requirements. And they are way more onerous than just whether it's open or not - also needs to have download counts (hahahahahahaha)
- Sarah
The Digital Commons Network is dedicated to open access. For this reason, every record must have a full text that is completely free of restriction. We believe in associating all records with the branding of the institution that made them available. We would ask for the approved logo of every participating institution. In each Commons of the Digital Commons Network, we feature several...
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- Sarah
That's from a Jan 10 email to SPARC-OA Forum from Kenneth Gleason.
- Sarah
wtf is a "reciprocal path to the scholarship of others"?!
- RepoRat
I think basically they want you to put a link to the digital commons network in your metadata record.
- Sarah
uh......... NO. Zero relevance to the item in the repo.
- RepoRat
As for download counts, though, I'm actually kind of glad that BePress is forcing that issue. It's BEYOND time.
- RepoRat
yes but they are so unreliable - particularly if you are bringing together download counts from different platforms together. But I agree that this could force the issue other places.
- Sarah
I'm kind of over their unreliability. The people demand numbers, give 'em numbers, and an explanation of how the numbers were arrived at.
- RepoRat
We're trying to look at the code for integrating google analytics into the display - work that was done in Scotland - see http://goo.gl/fCZyL - will also help with standardizing stats with many other library services.
- Sarah
*taking notes*
- aarontay
This just came back around our library's email chain. Has anyone gotten an answer about whether/how it can be set up as a target in link resolvers? I was stupid and forgot to stop by their booth at ACRL.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Oh, wait, our serials librarian says that everything in here (at least, all the peer-reviewed journal articles) is or should be already in DOAJ, and DOAJ is in our link resolver, so we don't need to worry about including this as well. Is she right? Pre/post-prints from toll-access journals wouldn't be in DOAJ, would they?
- Catherine Pellegrino
They may not be in DOAJ, but they might be in other places. Since BePress isn't in SFX, I can't run an overlap report there to find out.
- Kirsten
The problem with DOAJ is not everything in DOAJ is openly available
- awd
awd: If it isn't openly available, it doesn't belong in DOAJ, since you can't be OA without being, well, openly accessible. (Not saying it doesn't happen; saying it should be reported to DOAJ.)
- Walt Crawford
Lovely morning after a wet and heavy snowfall, having to deal with backed-up drains. Good thing we don't store anything in our basement.
Ugh.
- Marie
Oof
- lris
Oh dear.
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
yucko.
- RepoRat
Fixed. AND we now have hot water! Happy.
- barbara fister
Yay!
- Catherine Pellegrino
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>.<
- Running Slow
I should have gone with the original misspelled version ("SOCEITY")
- Andy
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans serif, sans everything.
- Steele Lawman
^^^ love
- barbara fister
Thinking about what’s not being measured by the Ithaka S+R Survey | Information Technology - http://library.osu.edu/blogs...
John Dupuis, Hedgehog, Kirsten and Yo Joe. No, go slow. liked this
Cogent critique.
- RepoRat
from Bookmarklet
Nice - though gray type on a gray background is really hard to read, says the squinting old lady
- barbara fister
agreed. I Readabilitied it.
- RepoRat
Very good idea - much easier to read, thank you.
- barbara fister
Know a new librarian looking for a job in the fall? We are about to advertise two sabbatical replacements. Nice starter home for a library career.
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why, as a matter of fact, I do! any particular subject specialties desired?
- RepoRat
I know a whole slew of amazing ones (most of my cohort graduates this year, though I've got at least a year left). Would be v. happy to point/repost.
- Marianne
tell me y'all want a music librarian. I have the BEST music librarian. THE BEST I TELL YOU.
- RepoRat
No specialization - all purpose instruction - reference - collections - add your skills and stir. With only six of us for 30+ programs we don't get too special.
- barbara fister
from iPhone
'k, I got some of them too.
- RepoRat
*nod nod nod*
- Marianne
plus, you know, also, last I heard Derrick was on the market at the moment. #justsayin #noshortageofawesome
- Marianne
I've got 2 maybe 3. Passing on employment notice.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
One will pay decently and I'm hoping like hell I'll need a sabbatical replacement, so it could turn into a two year visiting position though will only be advertised as one. The other will only be a semester and so doesn't include healthcare. Boo. Scanty deets are here: https://gustavus.edu/humanre...
- barbara fister
Serious question: Has anyone done a simple analysis of the [apparent] effects of increasing ejournal costs on book budgets--by segment of academia, not just overall? Say from 2000 to 2010? [Beall's idiocy about the serials problem being solved by 2004 doesn't help, but...]
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I'm putting a dummy slide in my OA precon on this topic. Unless I become aware of some work already out there, I'll do it myself...I'm guessing 5-10 hours of work...and add some new last-minute slides and a C&I article. But not worth the time if it's already out there.
- Walt Crawford
I don't know of any such analysis; it's one of those truisms that nobody seems to have built data around. I do wish somebody had... and hell, I'd love to see 40 years of data, not just ten! Even ten would be a lot better than nothing.
- RepoRat
Forty years is, I think, way beyond my capabilities--and if it turns out that NCES hasn't used consistent institution codes since 2000, even 10 may be difficult. And, of course, whatever I do won't be Scholarly, but it will be methodologically transparent and honest.
- Walt Crawford
In, let's see...2005, maybe? I did an analysis of the serials budget at NCSU that tracked the rate of inflation for, IIRC, serials packages ("big deals") over the previous 10 years, and then made projections based on that average rate of inflation for the following 10 years. It showed that in 10 years, the packages would subsume the entire serials budget, leaving no room for individual...
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- Catherine Pellegrino
Boss came back from LYRASIS director's meeting saying that everyone there was in same place as we were, roughly -- recurring ecosts around 90-92% mark. Not sure fi there was a study involved, or just conversations though...
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
So maybe this crude study would be of some use. [Won't start working on it until at least tomorrow: Need to do run-throughs of three talks for timing, before submitting PPTs; also need to do final draft of Library Publishing Toolkit piece. But after that...like, maybe, Thursday...]
- Walt Crawford
It would certainly be interesting, but I wonder if the real effect is in not increasing the book budget. At a previous job, we'd had the same book budget for 10 years, while serials and electronic had ballooned. So there was no direct effect on the book budget, but a ten year old monograph budget amount doesn't get you very far.
- Rebecca Hedreen
I'm pretty sure there are ways to control for purchasing power/inflation, but I dunno if Walt wants to complicate his process that much...
- RepoRat
Overall inflation is (relatively) easy to control for--but, actually, what Rebecca says is much of what I'm looking for. That is: to what extent did book budgets--still key for most humanities fields--either fail to keep up with inflation or actually decline, on an institution-by-institution/segment-by-segment basis.
- Walt Crawford
I'll look at the data dictionaries (from 1996 to 2010) starting tomorrow, and see whether this is feasible at all. A key here: As with my "academic library circulation" study, otherwise known as the Least Read C&I Issue of 2013, it's not so much overall numbers as segments and patterns. Well, and maybe overall numbers.
- Walt Crawford
I've now looked at the data dictionaries and prepared a table. Good news: Consistent data element definitions back to 2002 (as long as I use the "current" Carnegie 2005 classification--but I can't really see trying to cope with institutional changes in CC anyway). If I don't try to deal with $/FTE and the like, maybe back to 1998 (no single FTE figure prior to 2002).
- Walt Crawford
Less good: 2000 seems to lack ebooks added/held (but 1996-1998 have them); total $ defined differently before 2000; expenditures for ebooks and e-serials not defined in 1996. (Although, oddly, ebook *holdings* defined in 1996.)
- Walt Crawford
Conclusions: Can do this--whatever "this" turns out to be--all the way back to 1996, the first NCES data available, but have to make some simplifying assumptions for Carnegie-level breakout, and can only do bks/fte, $/fte, circ/fte from 2002 on. So I'll think about it and maybe proceed. Should prove interesting.
- Walt Crawford
I'm looking forward to seeing the results. I agree that it should be interesting
- Christina Pikas
Thanks. I'm beginning to suspect that, if this works out, C&I (and the precon) will have very brief selected results, with more extended discussion in a quickie ebook. But won't know until I try to put it together...AFTER I send in my PPTs for Oregon/Washington and revise my "Makerspaces for the Mind" piece. Still: This does look promising...
- Walt Crawford
ah, the mysteries of file sizes: just downloaded (or re-downloaded) the eight NCES zipped files, extracted the MDB files, opened MDB in Excel and saved as (renamed) XLSX, since that's how I'll work with them. But...
- Walt Crawford
The Zip archives were .9MB-1.7MB ***except*** that 2002 was 5.2MB and 1996 was 14.2MB. The MDB files were 5.4-8.4MB...***except*** that 2002 was 24MB and 1996 was, gasp, 66MB. I started to worry about 1996.
- Walt Crawford
Then (yes, Excel could open all of them and convert all of them, although it took 5 or 6 seconds for 1996, compared to 1-2 seconds for others): the XLSX files--the raw files, including everything--are all 4.0-5.0MB. So what the hell was going on in 1996 and 2002 with Access? (Just musing: I really don't need to know.)
- Walt Crawford
Next up (after some other work): Strip down to the 20 or 21 columns I might actually use; normalize UnitID column (in some years it's stored as a number, in some as text, and UnitID absolutely, positively must match throughout); save. Then, little by little, start actual work.
- Walt Crawford
have you run into the term "yak shaving"? you might like it. :) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki...
- RepoRat
Yeah, there's a certain amount of yak shaving involved here, *especially* going back before 2002. And in every case--e.g., which institutions get deleted before doing overall/single-year numbers, do I include imputed numbers, etc., etc. Fortunately--especially since 2004 or so--NCES documentation is excellent. (Ditto IMLS documentation for public libraries.)
- Walt Crawford
Progress report: I've now considerably reduced the data I'm retaining, prepared the eight one-year sheets, produced two levels of summary data (differing by how many institutions are excluded), adjusted for inflation in the spreadsheets (normalizing to 2000 as 0-point) and figured out what I'm *going* to do. This looks to be interesting & revealing, especially when looked at by sector.
- Walt Crawford
Obvious big-picture stuff you probably already know: *Overall,* which is almost meaningless, serials accounted for 17% of academic library budgets in 1996....and 26.1% in 2010. Whereas books (everything except serials, including back-runs of serials) accounted for 10.4% in 1996...and 10.8% in 2010. That's striking enough, but the devil will clearly be in the details. Maybe, with luck, in about two weeks...and boy, will I be waiting for the 2012 NCES data to emerge!
- Walt Crawford
Sigh. Decided to be rigorous, not allow imputed data. Big mistake: Resulted in eliminating nearly half of academic libraries. Now rebuilding--a fast process--after reviewing how imputation works, concluding that it's OK. No change in Big #s, but I'll wind up with meaningful discussions elsewhere.
- Walt Crawford
[Glossing "nearly half"--typically, about 12% of libraries failed to report in any given biennial period. But it's not the *same* 12%. Overall, I wound up with around 1,900 institutions with real reports in all 16 years out of 3,480-3,889. Hoping that will move up to, oh, 3,200 or more.]
- Walt Crawford
I don't see a problem with imputed data if you've got data points on both sides of what's missing...
- RepoRat
i think you need to do the thing with imputed data
- Christina Pikas
I guess I said that badly: After looking at the results of leaving out imputed data, I decided I needed to redo the worksheets to include imputed data. Just finished doing that for individual years; after lunch, will rebuild the Big Spreadsheet for those institutions around for all 16 years. Only took about 90 minutes to redo the others; prob. an hour to redo the biggie.
- Walt Crawford
In other words: I agree. (And NCES uses very good methods for imputing data, clearly explained and sector-sensitive.)
- Walt Crawford
Update... After two rounds of rethinking (and redoing some work), the spreadsheets are done. (Make "5-10 hours" into "30-50 hours" since I've put in 10+ already.) Now need to rewrite the overview and go on to sectors of libraries.
- Walt Crawford
Key so far: For the 2,636 libraries where I could make comparisons across the years (2000-2010, since 2000 is when the Inexorable Rise of Serials Spending really started) and where the library was neither growing very rapidly nor shrinking very rapidly (these 2,636 are 95% of all acad. lib. spending)...
- Walt Crawford
Serials spending (adjusted for inflation) is up 49% from 2000, while books spending is up 2% and total library spending is up 7%--but "everything except acq and subs" is *down* 3.3% from 2000.
- Walt Crawford
And those figures are warped by very large and in some cases pretty healthy libraries: The *median* library shows 52% serials increase, a 4.1% drop in "everything else" dollar availability...and a 23% loss in book money. Twenty-three percent. Pretty sure some sectors are going to be a lot worse than that.
- Walt Crawford
And now I'll stop updating this. When the study's ready (some slides will DEFINITELY be in my OA Precon, for a handful of y'all in Oregon and Washington), I'll do a proper blog post. Part but not most of the study will wind up in C&I; the rest will be in a $9.99 ebook.
- Walt Crawford
[Oh: To clarify. I do use imputed figures. The drop to 2,636 libraries factors in all those libraries--at least 800+--that aren't there throughout the period and the 201, almost all small, that either more than doubled in spending or reduced spending by more than half during the decade.]
- Walt Crawford
holy wow.
- RepoRat
Hell,RR: You know if I do it at all, I'm going to do it as honestly & rigorously as I can. (Did you know that "R1" basically disappeared in 2000? R1 and R2 are both Carnegie Classification 15 now, just as the two other Doctoral levels are now CC 16.)
- Walt Crawford
So glad you are untangling all this. Holy wow indeed.
- barbara fister
Hmm... here's an article I had missed. Libraries are biased and ETDs are wrong. http://writingstore.com/OA...
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But here's the funny thing - I got in a tiff on the WPA-L with one of its authors, who thinks pirates will benefit from open access and the poor copyright holders will suffer. I just sent him a note asking if he got permission from Elsevier to post this. Har har har.
- barbara fister
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Oh and I am supposed to do a class on Google scholar profiles and Google scholar metrics on top of the usual Scopus/Wos for citation analysis at the end of this month. Me thinks, I am going to get lots of questions.... done all the reading but...going to be interesting ....
- aarontay
i think i might put a copy of this in my annual review packet this year. i wonder if anyone uses this to supplement their web of science citations, for tenure? seems like goog picks up more than wos does because it's not concerned about what's indexed.
- Marie
I seem to have two - ?? - http://scholar.google.com.sg/citatio... and http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- barbara fister
Barbara huh? Did you set up 2? Both are verified with institution emails??
- aarontay
No "verified" email since I'm not institutionalized, but: http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- Walt Crawford
aaaaaaagh, now I'm spending the entire dang afternoon reading stuff that's cited me recently.
- RepoRat
It should be me. http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
For comparison, here's my profile in Microsoft Academic, which I see needs some cleanup, as the profile includes articles by others. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author...
- Stephen le Francoeur
i've really enjoyed perusing all your profiles. any other peeps want to share theirs?
- Marie
we have some influential peeps all up in here.
- RepoRat
I think this is mine? http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- Catherine Pellegrino
http://scholar.google.com/citatio... My sparkline looks not unlike Dorothea's until you realize that hers goes up to 40-something on the Y-axis and mine goes to...two. :D Also I just now saw the completely poker-faced abstract of "Library Survey Survey" in LISTA. lulz. *disappears inside his own navel*
- Steele Lawman
http://scholar.google.com/citatio... Added my book chapter :-D Must get other stuff up there...
- Hedgehog
I got really lucky with my undergraduate research projects in Chemistry. :) Otherwise my citation counts would be fairly low.
- Elizabeth Brown
Wow, y'all are super impressive. Here's my less illustrious profile http://scholar.google.com/citatio...
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Question for anyone who has read the US edition of Sean Doolittle's LAKE COUNTRY... can you tell me the name of the daughter who is kidnapped? I'm just reading it now and in my (Australian) edition she is called Juliet but two reviews I've seen say she is named Cheryl. I am curious if both are mistaken or if there was a change for Oz?
Sorry, haven't read it yet, Bernadette.
- Margot Kinberg
from Android
Sorry to be so late with this - just checked my copy (which turned up in a fit of housecleaning) and it is Juliet. Odd.
- barbara fister
That happened in one of Michael Robotham's books Bernadette. The character had one name early on and then began to be referred to by another. He said he had originally called her by the latter name but changed his mind and then didn't manage to pick up all the references to the original name. Much confusion. I read a blurb the other day where the main character had a different name to the one used in the book.
- Kerrie
true library confessions: I have an ARC problem. I keep taking them and never read them.
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the first step is to post this to a list and cackle at the ensuing outrage
- Pete #TeamMonique
haha i shoulda put it out on twitter.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Yeah, I've significantly cut back on the number of ARCs I take for this reason.
- Katie
they come to me by mail, UPS, and (today) FedEx. Bizarre that publishers think ebooks in libraries will crush them, but the fling free books in all directions. (I do review quite a few of them, but still...)
- barbara fister
I get them sent to me, too, and I don't even maintain a reading blog anymore. It's the curse of the literature librarian, I think.
- kaijsa
Serious question for April Fools' Day: What is so great about Lexis-Nexis Academic?
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Here's why I'm asking: we've never had a subscription here at MPOW. Various departments will periodically ask for it, but we've usually put them off with "it's too expensive" and "we have to cut, not add." Now we're looking very seriously at it, for a variety of reasons, but what we're finding suggests that most of what it offers, we already have through other sources -- usually with a more user-friendly interface and better link-resolver integration.
- Catherine Pellegrino
In the days when I was using it (2000-2003) it seemed to be the most complete newspaper/magazine archive that I had access to. That was long before I became a librarian, so I don't know if that was or is true, but that's how I used it.
- laura x
So, for example, the news content: we have ProQuest Newsstand, which duplicates the NYT content in L-N. We don't really care a whole lot about what other newspapers we have access to, as long as we have the NYT, and some other major papers. PQ works nicely with our SFX link resolver.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Another example: company information. We have Hoover's Premium, which the students love and is very easy to use. When we looked at what kind of information is available in L-N, it seems to duplicate -- maybe not even to the same degree of depth? We didn't have the time to look very very closely -- what Hoover's has. And again, the interface is laughable compared with Hoover's.
- Catherine Pellegrino
The Business department wants industry norms and ratios. L-N provides some of this, but not in the same degree of detail that we have through our (print) D&B Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios subscription.
- Catherine Pellegrino
The only thing we can think of is the Supreme Court and state/federal appellate court decisions, which one prof in the PolSci department would like. Is that enough to justify subscribing on its own, and/or am I hallucinating in my recollection that that info is also available through GPO Access?
- Catherine Pellegrino
tl;dr: If you have Lexis-Nexis Academic and it's essential, can you explain to me why?
- Catherine Pellegrino
Catherine- you can get a lot of the decisions for free via Cornell's LII, uscourts.gov, Oyez etc
- Pete #TeamMonique
Thanks, Pete - that's what I thought. The prof I talked to mentioned a few sites that I've heard law librarians talk about (FindLaw, maybe? or justia.com?), but said that they only publish excerpts, not the full text of the opinions. He didn't mention any of those three, though, so I wonder if I just need to point him in the direction of some better sources.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Yeah--I think when I was searching for things, I was looking for maximum recall on, say, every mention I could find of "university AND sweatshop." So just NYT wouldn't have cut it for me. But this was extracurricular research. I am so not helping you answer this question. :)
- laura x
The user interface suks
- maʀtha
If you really don't care what other news sources you have access to, I agree that you probably don't need Lexis Nexis. I find that I use it mostly for international news sources or small regional US sources.
- Steele Lawman
I've always wondered how much of the "essential" bit of having Lexis-Nexis Academic is due to it's legacy and brand recognition. At UConn, the other reason is for legal information.
- Galadriel C.
I also really like the transcripts search. They have ALL the transcripts -- network, cable, radio....
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
This is a great question. Off the top of my head I'd say the trade journals and the international newspapers are more unique. Not just Advertising Age but even more niche trade journals, accounting newsletters, pharmacy industry news, defense industry, etc.... those might not be in a regular aggregator? Hmmm, law reviews are also helpful, not sure what other databases those would be in,...
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- Amandadon't
Yes, I think LN is our only source for many law journals.
- Steele Lawman
^^^ this. I only use the court opinions for stuff that isn't online. Trade pubs coverage (and some newspapers) are unique but don't get much use now. We had some of the brand awareness trouble in the past with one department believing it was THE source. I think that has finally faded away.
- barbara fister
Due to some interesting politics, we had Westlaw Campus Research and LexisNexis Academic at the same time. We are sticking with LexisNexis because, get this, people found it easier to use. We do need the legal stuff, especially the state level, and no matter how horrible LN is, it's MUCH better than your average state government website. It also has a better selection, for our purposes anyway, of local and international papers. Westlaw, even the campus version, very much assumes a strong legal background.
- Rebecca Hedreen
Westlaw Next knocks the socks of LexisNexis for legal researchers and it's very $$. As a former newspaper librarian & current journalism & advertising & PR academic librarian, I haz a love-hate relation with LexisNexis. Interface = dreadful. Content often covered in other places. But: LOTS of news sites (including transcripts & blogs) in one place. AND can do some really sophisticated searches with it for those doing content analysis.
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
Thank you, everyone! This is all super-helpful. It sounds like the must-have features of Lexis-Nexis that you've identified are, for the most part, things we don't necessarily need at that level here. We're looking into arranging a trial for the PoliSci prof who wants the court opinions, and that will help us evaluate whether the level of detail in it is something we really need or not. thanks again!
- Catherine Pellegrino
For the record, interface changed in 2010. I never saw the pre-2010 interface but think this one is definitely workable.
- kelly
We have a law school, and they pay for access to most any law journal we might need through Hein Online. I've been seeing our LN Academic use go down every year, and I think soon I'll be asking folks to decide if we really need to keep it anymore. There are much better interfaces for newspaper content, and we have to subscribe to America's News from Newsbank in order to have online access to our local paper, anyway.
- Royce's favorite Anna
Had a consultation with a student looking for information about current trade between Russia and Iran. Any thoughts for where that kind of info might be found?
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Maybe Passport GMID This database provides business intelligence for countries, consumers, and industries worldwide. Formerly called Global Market Information Database. or Market Research Library Use this site to find Country Commercial Guides, Market Research Reports, and Best Market Reports from the U.S. Commercial Service.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Supposedly country commercial guides are now here http://www.buyusainfo.net/adsearc... so says this http://guides.ucf.edu/content... which has a lot of links derived from the old NTDB.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
http://www.wto.org/ and the world bank may have some info.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
International monetary fund (International financial statistics), and undata http://data.un.org/ This search portal allows one to retrieve information from various United Nations databases, such as Commodity Trade Statistics, Industrial Commodity Statistics, World Development Indicators, UNSD Demographic Statistics.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) Print Only? HF91 .I651 Published quarterly and annually by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this source provides data on the value of merchandise exports and imports according to their most important trading partners.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook Reference HC59 .U55 (Print) Quantity data on production of about 530 industrial commodities by country, geographical region, economic grouping and for the world. Most of the statistics cover 1987-1996 for about 200 countries and areas. Published by the United Nations.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I would ask Joe.
- barbara fister
East view sells a lot of Russian reference stuff. Some place in Michigan used to have a lot of Russian statistics
- Christina Pikas
from iPhone
Heh, Barbara
- maʀtha
No, it is all Esther. Just cutting and pasting from some of her guides.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
wow! thank you joe!!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from YouFeed
Think Joe is going to get lots of reference questions abt business/economics/trade from this group from now on.
- aarontay
(i love you guys)
- $tephanie•Cog$ciLibrarian
You guys are seriously awesome. There's a lot to dig through here... The hard part about this question is not that it's a secretive country's trade info, but about the trade relationship between two such secretive countries. When neither are the US.... I will report which ones had this tricky info later today!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Doing some googling and google scholaring, The Turkey–Russia–Iran Nexus: Eurasian Power Dynamics SJ Flanagan - The Washington Quarterly, 2013 - Taylor & Francis ... Total annual bilateral trade between Iran and Russia is estimated to have tripled over the past decade, but volume remains quite small—about $3.5 billion in 2010. and [HTML] Russian and Chinese Support for Tehran GL Simpson...
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- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Schrodinger's Library Cat: "Until it's indexed, does it exist or not?" (Contemplating weeding of interesting but outdated, and completely unindexed, science books.)
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It can exist in other libraries.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
If it's not findable, is it worth the shelf space?
- awd
I hate to think what happens to the shelving when the wave function collapses.
- barbara fister
Why do we have uncatalogued stuffs? Serious question.
- kaijsa
I would posit that "control" and "use" correspond to "position" and "momentum" if we are updating Heisenberg's theory for library values.
- Steele Lawman
There's always serendipitous discovery...if it's on a physical shelf (and if dust doesn't deter potential readers)
- Megan loves summer
Yeah, serendipity would depend on somebody having a reason to be at that shelf. Browsing is aided by some kind of organizing principle. I'm a grouch.
- kaijsa
There's indexing and then there's cataloging, right? I'm assuming in Rebecca's original question that the books are in the catalog, but the contents aren't indexed by major indexs?
- Steele Lawman
I thought completely unindexed meant not catalogued, but I may be assuming too much.
- kaijsa
I did mean in the catalog, but not indexed anywhere. The one on my desk right now is the year 2000 volume of "Science Year: The World Book Annual Supplement". Most of the book is encyclopedia type entries updated with new info that year, and some "state of the science" reports, but it also has a fun essay about historical technology predictions (the "where's my flying car" type) and an...
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- Rebecca Hedreen
Can you direct me to the worst library website you've seen? Looking for an academic library, but will take other examples. My Google-fu is failing me.
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Here's what one person thinks! http://twitter.com/AngieGi...
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
I love the folks at UW-Oshkosh, so I feel like a traitor, but: http://www.uwosh.edu/library/
- RepoRat
And if you want a nice linkfarm, http://library.uwsp.edu/
- RepoRat
This guy doesn't name names, but I wonder if you could figure out who he's talking about? http://roddymacleod.wordpress.com/2010...
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Like Oshkosh, we're doing a re-design soon, but our site is terri-bad: http://www.uwlax.edu/murphyl...
- Jen
Gotta admit, when I encounter a blog that's light-grey type on a dark-grey background, I take the advice on bad websites with a whole bushel of salt. Or would, if I was even willing to punish my eyes all the way through.
- Walt Crawford
True dat.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
So one criteria for the worst website is number of links on the home page? we have 18 links, 13 buttons, not counting search tabs and menubar (mouse over drop down menu)
- aarontay
Jen, yours isn't that bad. The UW-Oshkosh redesign is nice.
- Running Slow
http://www.ivcc.edu/library... And this is an improvement over the old one.
- Running Slow
Yep Walt. I spent about 30 seconds and said a bad word while moving on.
- Running Slow
I think UW-Oshkosh best illustrates my point. Thanks, all!
- Royce's favorite Anna
Aaron, we've got you beat by a mile for links. I remember counting 50 links on it a few years ago, and I thinks some have been added since then... I'd never suggest that it's among the worst library websites out there, though. http://scc.losrios.edu/~librar...
- JffKrlsn
Right. Is not just the number of links. I wouldn't suggest ours is among the worst either. At least the current version. But i think our libguides home might almost rank as that and it's mostly my fault.
- aarontay
regarding that blog post, apart from gray on black problems, there's this: libraries that don't have a discovery layer are just plain stupid. "If finances are so bad, and there’s no other viable way, they should get rid of a member of library staff and invest instead in improving the services that are actually needed." Because as we all know, Primo and Summon work without any need for staff whatsoever.
- barbara fister
...and that member of the library staff certainly isn't responsible for any services that are actually needed. :-/
- Catherine Pellegrino
ours is.... not so good. library.illinois.edu
- Sarah
Might a before/after look help? See: http://library.temple.edu (before) and http://pine.library.temple.edu (after - not completely there yet) Tried to move from link overkill to most important stuff you need and more visual content
- steven bell
Public libraries are awesome at having bad websites! http://www.trumbullct-library.org/
- Miriella
Made on a Mac, using Dreamweaver. This one is OK...
- Julian
UNN LIBRARY HAS ALL THE MATERIALS MEEDED FOR MORE TRY http://koha-library.unn.edu.ng:8081/
- ginaunn
UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA E RESOURCES http://unn.edu.ng/chart/repo
- ginaunn
About twenty, not counting links within the "what's new at the library" stories, which change regularly and might include more or fewer links. Also not counting the links in the footer, which duplicate the main navigation and almost nobody ever scrolls all the way down there.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Lucky 13.
- barbara fister
55 including top header buttons (Home, etc); not including footer tho
- Hedgehog
Including text within image buttons, about 34, not counting the footer. http://library.du.edu/site/
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
21 plus 4 social media links.
- Jenica
54 including top header buttons, not including footer.
- aarontay
a lot? If you count the link to each letter in our list of databases (this is in the default Discover tab on the home page - http://library.gsu.edu/ - so I think it probably needs to be counted)
- ellbeecee
33, mostly buttons.
- kaijsa
35, similarly not including the footer or rotating events.
- laura x
If you drink coffee, when did you start?
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Hmm. Probably around... 16
- Pete #TeamMonique
University, I think. With cream and sugar. Then a couple of years after university I cut out the sugar, then a couple of years ago, I started drinking it black.
- DJF
16, but I only drank it at Denny's or at my friend Lucy's house.
- Meg V. Meg
usually whenever I wake up
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
The summer between jr and sr years of high school, while I was attending the University of Iowa Journalism Workshop. NoDoz followed close after.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
14 cuz I thought I was fuckin cool, man
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
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Maybe 1978. Still in HS. Instant but no microwave. Boiled water.
- Mike Nencetti
from iPhone
Usually about 11PM when I have to get up for work.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
I started sometime around 1998 (there would be an occasional cup before then, but not regularly) - or at least that's when I remember starting to drink it regularly. I would have been around 25? That would have been the time when many workdays involved a 2 hour interstate drive before arriving where I'd be working that day.
- ellbeecee
I was 18 and I was at a Vietnam war protest outside the White House and it was REALLY cold and someone handed me a warm, milky, sugary cup of coffee....mmmm. Converted instantly.
- barbara fister
oh gosh, when I was a kid I was always snitching it from my dad's cup, so I got the taste early. started drinking it regularly in high school, probably?
- holly #ravingfangirl
College. When I was in high school, I used to get really good flavored hot chocolate from a coffee bar all the time. When I went away to college, I couldn't do that anymore, because the flavored syrups at my college coffee bar would curdle the milk in the hot chocolate; so they told me I should order a mocha instead. From then on, I was hooked. Mochas all the time, and straight (no...
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- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
College. I don't drink it every day, but I take spells where I drink it got a few weeks at a time.
- Jed Harris-Keith
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College. I blame Cafe Nica, also working long hours at my parents inn. Also, Sarah's four-cup Krupps machine
- maʀtha
not when I worked at the iowa city coffee shop in college :) I started when I went back to school, and was working at a food coop. 6am grains shifts= los of coffee!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
from YouFeed
College. Mr. 13 started probably around age 8.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
I usually start about 8:30 am.
- Running Slow
Forever, I think, but certainly by seventh or eighth grade. Learned to drink it black in tenth grade. Thanks to the proliferation of mochas and lattes in the last two decades-plus. Both kids started drinking those very early. Sarah's still a coffee drinker, but at 17, Jojo has graduated to preferring tea most of the time.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
BTW, I am drinking the first cup of coffee produced from grounds from Sarah's new burr grinder. Yum!
- maʀtha
In college. From sophomore through senior year, many of us in my 10AM acting class would go and get coffee after class at "Jitters," the coffee cart in the student center.
- Steele Lawman
Between Jr/Sr year at college. Worked as a camp counselor. Counselors could have coffee instead of milk with breakfast. After learning to drink that sludge, all other coffee tasted great.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
11yo. In the mountains of the Philippines (a 12 hr hike from the 'road' into the village). The beans and sugar were grown there, in a clearing. I helped pound the cane and the roasted beans, then we brewed and drank. I was hooked. Got back to US and promptly quit. Till I worked at the Copacetic Cafe when I was 18.
- Lnorigb
from FFHound!
Sophomore year in high school, so 14-15. This is when I started getting into the habit of pulling all-nighters.
- Victor Ganata
My mom used to make us "kids coffee", warm milk with honey & a splash of coffee. But I started drinking it for real when I was 26.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Until reading this thread, I'd been amazed at the number of high-schoolers buying coffee drinks, but I see now it's nothing new!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
I started in college. And I drink it about as often as I did then - 2 or 3 times a year, maybe?
- Marianne
Probably in Berkeley/college. I drank a *lot* more coffee then than I would ever do now.
- Walt Crawford
17 when I started working in a newsroom
- jambina
Sometime in college.
- John (bird whisperer)
Casually, when I was about 15. Became an every day drinker when I was 19.
- Kelli H.
Grad school
- lris
College, but only rarely. Maybe a half dozen times a year.
- Derrick
I don't drink it regularly, but mid-high school.
- Jennifer Dittrich
from FFHound!
As a habit, maybe 25 or 27.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
If you count powered, flavoured coffee mixes (of which I now cringe at the thought), then probably age 10 or so. With my milk allergy, hot chocolate was forbidden fruit, so I tried the "coffee" my mom liked at the time. Real coffee? University (age 18).
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I tried it once when I was 14 and again maybe in my 40s ...still hate it and tea too.
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
My dad did mix me up some very milky sweet stuff once in awhile when I was younger.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
I want to say 17ish/college
- Rachel Walden
14.
- Steven Perez
around 30
- MiniMage
Junior or senior year of college, I decided it was time to learn, so I started making hot cocoa with coffee instead of hot water, then used less and less cocoa. (I think Barbara wins the street cred award.)
- Catherine Pellegrino
from iPod
Around 18
- Iván Abrego
12 years old, but only when I get tired or after a big meal.
- Eric
10 I think? I'd drink weak coffee in hot cocoa. In college I got down to drinking it black; now I'm back to cream.
- Hedgehog
My first 10 years after college were in an auto plant where coffee was social currency. You wanted to talk to a skilled tradesperson about a job? You bought it him/her a cup of coffee. You wanted to settle a dispute? You did it over coffee. You wanted host a meeting? You had better have coffee. After a while, I just got tired of just holding it and started drinking it. Now it's my reason for living.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I didn't start until I was 29! My bf at the time gave me my first mocha... Damn him! Couldn't stand the stuff before, now I can't live without it!
- Yvonne
Freshman year of college. Thought I had to, but didn't like it. Fell in love with coffee around 25 when my girlfriend was into home roasting and using a french press.
- Royce's favorite Anna
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What Can Higher Ed Learn from Libraries (continuing in the Pollyanna vein...) | Inside Higher Ed http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs...
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Now that I've read it--linking again.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
This article in the Chronk has a similar vein. http://chronicle.com/article... (not OA?) "The conservative emphasis on job training and respect for authority can be used to bash the liberal arts. Indeed, the governors of North Carolina, Texas, and Florida routinely use Smith's logic to do just that. But the part about teaching people to think—which is what the liberal arts are supposed to do—is important. Many folks need to think critically, and it's not easy to teach them how."
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
Thanks - I had missed that one.
- barbara fister
The deets on that jacket blurb ...
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That's fab, Norman!
- Karen Meek
I doubt he minds hanging about Liza's left knee :)
- barbara fister
Karen it is very fab! Barbara thanks for the photo; Liza's left knee or right knee or her feet. Definitely worth a post. :-)
- Norman
Just finished Liza Marklund's Lifetime. Closed the book and see that one of the blurbs on the back of the US edition is attributed to Crime Scraps!
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Well done, Norman!
- Margot Kinberg
Barbara, thanks for letting me know. Is that the edition with a blurb from Henning Mankell on the front cover?
- Norman
Yes. She is the queen of Scandinavian crime fiction. There are lots of queens there. ;)
- barbara fister
At least she is not the next Stieg Larsson.
- barbara fister
On deleting my Goodreads account - http://reactionstoreading.com/2013...
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Does anyone have an opinion on Library Thing? Would someone recommend it?
- Jose Ignacio
I've been wondering the same thing.
- Margot Kinberg
Amazon does own 40% of library thing, plus another competitor site called Shelfari...
- Bernadette
It's actually less than 40% - and it happened because Amazon acquired the company that had a stake (ABEbooks). The majority share is held by its founder, Tim Spaulding, who is a geeky classics major with a healthy respect for privacy. I use LT and like it. I paid $25 for a lifetime membership and am happy that I don't get spammed and that my data is only ported over to LibraryThing for Libraries (which helps pay the bills and basically adds LT tags and reviews to library catalogs).
- barbara fister
I like LT as a place to keep track of what I'm reading. It's less obviously social than GR (though there are discussions, sharing of libraries, etc.) It's not as pretty or slick and for some, the lack of a mobile app is a problem. But for me, it's just what I need.
- barbara fister
Basically, I trust LT. I didn't trust GR because when a platform is entirely free, it's monetizing you. (As for FriendFeed, I hope Facebook has forgotten it owns it and it just trundles along somehow....though I would pay to keep it going if it were necessary.)
- barbara fister
Thanks for all that Barbara. I do think LT looks like a completely different animal than GR turned into so I will think seriously about doing something with my LT account.
- Bernadette
I'm giving it a whirl.
- Rich Westwood
People are the only recommendation machines I need (though they are not machines).
- barbara fister
Ditto Barbara...I am at best bemused by computerised recommendation engines....rarely tempted
- Bernadette
Edwin Mellen Press Threatens to Sue Society for Scholarly Publishing - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - https://chronicle.com/blogs...
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"Mr. Richardson could not be reached for comment on Friday, but in an interview this week he told The Chronicle that his lawsuit against Mr. Askey would not be the last in his fight to protect his reputation as well as the reputation of the press and its authors. “It’s going to develop and develop,” Mr. Richardson said. “It’s a little bit of a cyclone, and it isn’t quite clear where the eye of the cyclone is going to form. But the eye could be over the practice of people using the social media to anonymously bully other people.”"
- laura x
from Bookmarklet
THE PRACTICE OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ANONYMOUSLY BULLY OTHER PEOPLE. Like, say, buying a bunch of domain names that are the name of the guy you are suing?
- laura x
'protect his reputation as well as the reputation of the press and its authors'. I think they're doing that wrong.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Someone has lost it. Slapp-happy.
- barbara fister
I posted there. What a fucking loon.
- Steele Lawman
well said, steve. (in the comment. but also here. ; )
- jambina
I hope your comment generates a flood of mail, Steve.
- lris
Thanks for the inspiration in your comment. because of it I just emailed them expressing my disgust.
- Heather Piwowar
Maybe Sergio could get a job there. I think he would be a good fit
- maʀtha
I think the anonymous bullying they are referring to is a shot at The Chronicle's message boards. People post under usernames, not their real names. If you dig through posts regarding Edwin Mellen Press, you can find the kinds of things that Richardson is referring to.
- Andy
A flood of mail seems too much to hope for, but I will pass along a link to the article to my faculty on Monday.
- Steele Lawman
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